Sue Foley

Sue Foley

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Sue Foley

Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)[1] is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist.

Career

Born to a working-class family Foley grew up listing to her father play and sing Irish folk songs. After seeing James Cotton perform when she was 15, she made the lifelong decision to play blues guitar. At 16 she started playing professionally around Ottawa with local blues bands. By 21 she was living in Austin, Texas, and recording for legendary blues label Antones Records. Her first CD Young Girl Blues quickly established her unique talents as a blues guitarist and songwriter. Throughout the 90s she took to the road with her paisley Telecaster and honed her craft working/sharing the stage with such artists as BB King, Buddy Guy, Lucinda Williams and Tom Petty. In 1997 she moved back to Canada to raise her son. In 2000, her home country honored her with her first Juno Award (Canada's premier music awards): Best Blues Album for her CD Love Comin Down. Since 1999 she has received a record-setting 17 Maple Blues Awards, and 3 Trophées de blues in France . Sue also received a nomination for the prestigious W.C. Handy Award for best contemporary female artist in 2002.

Discography

Foley albums

1992 - Young Girl Blues

1993 - Without a Warning

1995 - Big City Blues

1996 - Walk in the Sun

1998 - Ten Days in November

2000 - Back to the Blues

2000 - Love Comin' Down

2002 - Where the Action Is

2004 - Change

2006 - New Used Car

2007 - Time Bomb

2010 - He Said She Said (with Peter Karp)

2012 - "Beyond The Crossroads" (with Peter Karp)

Contributions to other albums

2002 The Blues: From Yesterday's Masters to Today's Cutting Edge (Shanachie, American Roots Songbook, as licensed to St. Clair Entertainment)[2]